A'respectable' livelihood: Mobility and identity in a Caribbean family

Work and Migration: Life and livelihoods in a globalizing world

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 85-105

  Olwig, Karen Fog ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203166239     Document Type: Chapter

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